A Tribute to Our Colleague
We have compiled a listing of books authored by all of our participating Festival Writers who have attended over the past six years, and added those writers who are participating for the first time in 2019.
Whether you are looking for a gift for someone or gift for yourself, we hope that you find this index helpful for the pleasure of reading creative, provocative and progressive works by our talented alumni.
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Nancy Agabian
Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter - Memoir
Princess Freak - Poetry / Performance Collection
E. J. Antonio
Rituals In The Marrow: Recipe for a Jam Session - Poetry w/Jazz CD
Photo Courtesy of Rachel Eliza Griffiths
The Hobart Festival of Women Writers
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Kamilah Aisha Moon
In shock and grief, the Hobart Festival of Women Writers Planning Committee offers our deep condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Kamilah Aisha Moon, who died last week.
Kamilah was a Participating Writer at the 2016 Festival. Needless to say, she stunned us with her poetry, its elegance and brilliance. She happily told us then she would be starting that fall as an Assistant Professor of English at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. Just as happily, we congratulated her, wished her well, and made her promise to return to Hobart from Decatur, though not so near as New York City. Kamilah was such a lovely presence, an empathic poet, full of light and grace. She will be missed in the world of poetry, in the world of women, in the world.
Ending this tribute with a passage from her praise poem, “Catskills Retreat,”* seems fitting:
I take cool, high altitude breaths
& recall other heights, gaze
at humbling shoulders of earth
brushing up against brazen blue—
channel a lily pad lightness upon
woman-made depths to face matters
long past skimming . . .
. . . bless my fellow travelers & the blades
of grass forgiving our steps, springing
back up. Bless the beaver beginning
again and again, the monarch’s
meandering flight. Bless these mosquitoes
& their insatiable thirst, the bluejays
at dawn trilling you are not through
*Starshine and Clay, Four Way Books/Tribeca, ‘17.
Stay With Me: A Novel - Fiction
The Heiress of Water: A Novel - Fiction
Sandra Rodriguez Barron
Stay With Me: A Novel
The Heiress of Water: A Novel
Photo Courtesy Erin Bell
Nancy K. Bereano
Editor and Publisher of the award-winning Firebrand Books for sixteen years and publishing over 80 major titles by distinguished Lesbian Writers.
Photo Courtesy of Jill Posner
Elana Bell
Eyes, Stones: Poems
Remica L. Bingham-Risher
Conversation - Poetry
Starlight & Error - Poetry
What We Ask of Flesh - Poetry
Mermer Blakeslee
A Conversation With Fear - Non-fiction
When You Live By A River - Historical Fiction
Photo Courtesy of Rose Mackiewicz
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Arrival - Poetry
Convincing The Body - Poetry
Photo Courtesy of Peter Dressel
Blanche McCrary Boyd
Terminal Velocity - Fiction
The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down-Home Tales - Fiction
The Revolution of Little Girls - Fiction
Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Powder Necklace: A Novel
Photo Courtesy of Essie Brew-Hammond
Breena Clarke
Angels Make Their Hope Here - Fiction
River, Cross My Heart - Fiction
Photo Courtesy of Ann E Chapman
Stand The Storm - Fiction
HARDCOVER
SOFTCOVER
Cheryl Clarke
After Mecca: Black Women and the Black Arts Movement - Non-fiction
Photo Courtesy of Nivea Castro
By My Precise Haircut - Poetry
Living As A Lesbian - Poetry
G.R.I.T.S. - Girls Raised In The South: An Anthology of Southern Queer Womyns' Voices and Their Allies -
by Poet On Watch (Editor),
Amber N. Williams (Editor),
Cheryl Clarke (Introduction),
Jaki Shelton Green (Foreword)
and Pamela Sneed (Afterword
Living As A Lesbian - Poetry
6x6 #36: PRODYOURHEADWITHASTICK - Poetry
Published by: UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
The Days of Good Looks - Prose & Poetry
Esther Cohen
Book Doctor: A Novel
Breakfast With Allen Ginsberg - Poetry
Don’t Mind Me: And Other Jewish Lies - Stories
God Is a Tree and Other Middle-Aged Prayers - Poetry
No Charge for Looking: A Novel
Unseen America: Photos & Stories by Workers - Non-fiction
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1884-1933 - History
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938 - History
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3:
The War Years and After, 1939-1962 - History
The Declassified Eisenhower - History
Simona David
Art In The Catskills, Third Edition: The Definitive Guide to the Catskills' Rich Cultural Life - Non-fiction
How Art Is Made In The Catskills - Non=fiction
Self-Publishing and Book Marketing - Non-fiction
Alexis De Veaux
An Enchanted Hair Tale - Children's Book
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde - Non-fiction
Yabo - Fiction
Kathy Engel
Banana - Children's Book
Ruth’s Skirts - Poetry
The Kitchen - Non-fiction
We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon
- Kamal Boullata (Editor), Kathy Engel (Editor)
Wind Dancer: A storm in the Pacific. Survival. Conquering fear. A sailing story based on true events.
- Non-fiction
Julie R. Enszer
Avowed - Poetry
Handmade Lover - Poetry
Homesteading: Essays on life, death, sex, and liberation - Essays
Lilith’s Demons - Poetry
Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry
– Julie R. Enszer (Editor)
Sinister Wisdom - Poetry
The Complete Works of Pat Parker – Julie R. Enszer (Editor)
Margot Farrington
Flares and Fathoms - Poetry
Rising and Falling - Poetry
Scanning For Tigers - Poetry
Annie Finch
A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women
- Annie Finch (Editor)
Photo Courtesy of Helen Peppe Photography
A Poet's Ear: A Handbook of Meter and Form
Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams - Poetry
Spells: New and Selected Poems
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art
– Annie Finch (Editor) & Kathrine Lore Varnes (Editor)
Eve - Poetry
The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
- Essays and Memoir
Ifeona Fulani
Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music
Ifeona Fulani (Editor & Contributor) - Cultural Anthology
Seasons of Dust - A Novel
Ten Days in Jamaica - Short Stories
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
All That Lies Between Us - Poetry / Memoirs
The Girls In The Chartreuse Jackets
- Poetry
The Silence In An Empty House
- Poetry
Photo Courtesy of Joe Costa
What Blooms in Winter
- Poetry
Writing Poetry To Save Your Life: How To Find The Courage To
Tell Your Stories
Diane Gilliam
Dreadful Wind & Rain - Lyrical Narrative
Kettle Bottom
- Poetry
One of Everything - Poetry
Jewelle Gomez
Don't Explain: Short Fiction - Short Stories
Forty-Three Septembers
- Essays
Oral Tradtion: Selected Poems Old & New
The Gilda Stories: A Novel
SOFTCOVER
Expanded 25th Anniversary
Edition
Rachel Elza Griffiths
Miracle Arrhythmia - Poetry
Mule & Pear
- Poetry
The Requited Distance: Poems
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
M Archive: After the End of the World - Poetry
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
– Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Editor),
China Martens (Editor),
Mai'a Williams (Editor), Loretta J. Ross (Preface)
- Anthology / Essays
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity - Poetry
Marya Hornbacher
Madness: A Bipolar Life - Memoir
Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the 12 Steps - Non-fiction
Photo Courtesy of Mark Trockman
The Center of Winter: A Novel
Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power - Spiritual Non-fiction
Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)
- Memoir
Ginnah Howard
Rope & Bone: A Novel In Stories -Book 1 of Trilogy
- Fiction
Photo Courtesy of Rose Mackiewicz
Night Navigation: A Novel - Book 2 of Trilogy
- Fiction
Doing Time Outside: A Novel
- Book 3 of Trilogy
- Fiction
HARDCOVER
I’m Sick of This Already: At-Risk Learning in a High School Class
- Non-fiction
SOFTCOVER
Sonya Huber
Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir - Non-fiction
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System - Essays
Tayari Jones
An American Marriage: A Novel - Fiction
Leaving Atlanta: A Novel - Fiction
Silver Sparrow: A Novel - Fiction
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Daughters Of The Stone: A Novel – Fiction
Photo Courtesy of Richard Stokes
Linda Lowen
Chicken Soup For The Soul: Volunteering and Giving Back
Amy Newmark (Editor) Linda Lowen (Contributor) - Non-fiction
Hopeful Grateful Strong - Linda Lowen (Editor)
- Cancer Survivor Stories
Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox
Joanne C. Bamberger (Editor), Linda Lowen (Contributor) - Non-fiction
Dara Lurie
Great Space of Desire: Writing for Personal Evolution - Non-fiction
Marianela Medrano
La palabra rebelada/revelada: el poder de contarnos
(The Word Rebelled / Revealed: The power to tell us)
[Text is in Spanish]
Compiled by Marianela Medrano and Miriam Mejía. - Writers Anthology
Rooting: Selected Poems [Bilingual] - Poetry
Ellen Meeropol
House Arrest: A Novel
Photo Courtesy of Danielle Tait
Kinship of Clover: A Novel
On Hurricane Island: A Novel
Anne Nelson
Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler - Non-fiction
Photo Courtesy of Jimmy Ryan
Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
- Non-fiction
The Guys: A Play
Stephanie Nikolopoulos
Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"
(w/ Paul Maher Jr.) - Non Fiction
Elisabeth Nonas
A Room Full of Women - Fiction
City of Friends: A Portrait of the Gay and Lesbian Community in America
- Non-fiction
For Keeps: A Novel - Fiction
Staying Home
- Fiction
Story Workout: Exercises to Help You Connect to the Stories You Want to Tell
- Writing
Cynthia Dewi Oka
Nomad of Salt and Hard Water - Poetry
Salvage: Poems
Photo Courtesy of Cathie Berrey-Green
Chinelo Okparanta
Happiness, Like Water - Fiction
Photo Courtesy of Kelechi Okere
Under the Udala Trees - Fiction
VARIOUS COVERS FOR THIS TITLE
Bessy Reyna
Memorias de la Amante Infiel / Memoirs of the Unfaithful Lover
- Poetry
English and
Spanish Edition
The Battlefield of Your Body
- Poetry
English and
Spanish Edition
Bertha Rogers
Beowulf: Letterpress / Limited Edition
- Bertha Rogers (Translator & Illustrator) - Poetry
Even the Hemlock: Poems, Illuminations, Reliquaries
Heart Turned Back - Poetry
Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers - Bertha Rogers (Editor & Contributor) - Anthology
Suddenly There Were Leaves
- Bertha Rogers (Editor & Contributor)
- Poetry & Prose Anthology
Kat Rosenfield
Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone - Fiction
Inland - Fiction
Photo courtesy of David Charles
SOFTCOVER
Sophfronia Scott
All I Need To Get By - Fiction
Photo Courtesy of Chia Messina
Love’s Long Line: 21st Century Essays
Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of "Dangerous Liaisons" - Fiction
Photo Courtesy of Helen Peppe Photography
Elizabeth Searle
Celebrities in Disgrace: A Novella and Stories
Girl Held In Home - Fiction
Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed
Their Lives - Elizabeth Searle (Editor), Tamra Wilson (Editor).
Peter Noone (Forward) - Essays
My Body To You - Fiction
We Got Him - Fiction
Leslie T. Sharpe
Editing Fact and Fiction: A Concise Guide to Book Editing - Writing
The Quarry Fox And Other Critters Of The Wild Catskills - Nature / Wildlife
Evie Shockley
a half-red sea - Poetry
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
semiautomatic - Poetry
the new black - Poetry
Martha Southgate
Another Way To Dance - Fiction
The Fall of Rome - Fiction
The Taste of Salt - Fiction
Third Girl From The Left - Fiction
HARDCOVER OR ALTERNATE SOFTCOVER?
SOFTCOVER
HARDCOVER
SOFTCOVER
Arisa White
A Penny Saved - Poetry
Black Pearl - Poetry Chapbook
Hurrah's Nest - Poetry Chapbook
You're The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
- Poetry
Yolanda Wisher
Monk Eats An Afro - Poetry
Photo Courtesy of Mark Palacio
Peace Is A Haiku Song - Sonia Sanchez (Editor) and Yolanda Wisher (Editor)
- Selected Haiku, Essays, and Photographs Anthology
Lisa Wujnovich
Fieldwork - Poetry
The Lake Rises: Poems To & For Our Bodies of Water
- Lisa Wujnovich (Editor),
Brandi Katherine Herrera (Editor)
- Poetry
This Place Called Us
- Lisa Wujnovich (Author),
Mark Dunau (Photographer)
- Poetry / Photography
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